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the colgate maroon founded 1868 volo colgate university hamilton n v may 1 1969 no 22 krehel colgate is a sick patient by robert b donin 71 declaring that colgate and other small liberal arts colleges are sick patients university treasurer ray mond krehel asked the fac ulty to reevaluate the cur rent budget and the 1969-70 budget in order to reduce ex pense by 185,000 krehel asked that a blue ribbion committee composed of the treasurer provost and two members of the faculty be formed to request suggestions for ways of cutting the bud get establish initial estimates of cuts and hold hearings to review the recommended cuts president pro tern franklin wallin explained that the uni versity had one foot on the dock and the other foot in the boat with regard to financial status he held that while university income remained steady and regular costs to the college for operation and growth were unsteady and growing rapidly overcommitted krehel stated that we are overcommitted and haven't been willing to admit it and called on the budget commit tee to be established to look at those services benefits and programs which are costing us more than we can afford let's admit right now we have a champagne taste and a beer pocketbook the treasurer cited as the reason for the needed econ omies the university's small endowment and the decrease of gifts following completion of the crisp campaign and the sit-in last april he said that while endowment income in dollars has increased its importance in terms of per centage support for the oper ating budget is decreasing with the increase in costs while the endowment fund would require an increase of 100 to yield 400,000 for the operating budget dart mouth yale or princeton could produce the extra in come by increasing endow ment less than 20 balanced expense krehel told the faculty that the key to a balanced budget was reduced expense not in creased income noting that income sources are limited and strained right now he stated that in order to build up flexibility for the future the university should consid er giving up some of its fix ed firm commitments he suggested that no new or expanded programs be ap proved unless other programs requiring the same amount of financial support are eliminat ed and recommended that because the cost to educate each special student per year is 7,000 while it costs 900 net to educate each regular student the special student program should not be en larged without outside sup port from foundations or the government coeducation is desirable krehel reported but we can not afford to build new facili ties and add the personnel re quired to take care of 600 more students at colgate within the limits of our pres ent facilities and with no more staff coeducation is possible but this will require a reduction in the male pop ulation among other possible meth ods for reducing expense krehel suggested that the faculty consider deferring the renovation of lathrop hall which will re quire about 850,000 of uni versity funds to construct and vice president raymond krehel right confers with assistant registrar frank weber at monday night's faculty meet ing student senate votes to increase social fees by lance morgan 72 100,000 budget the student senate by a vote of 23-7 monday night increased the student activi ties fee for the 1969-70 aca demic year to 50 the 10 increase which goes into effect immediately was ap proved primarily to compen sate for the larger monetary demands made by the various organizations upon the uni versity union board james r mcclintock di rector of student activities and chairman of the univer sity union board noted that the 50 fee was not unusual ly high and he named at least fifteen public and private col leges throughout the country which charged their students more than 50 100,000 the increase will provide the senate with up to ap proximately 100,000 to al locate to the various organiza tions which is a 20,000 in crease over the money given to the programs this year the major benefactors of the increase will be the social mixed reaction senate social chairman rich kessell 71 gets a mixed reaction as he offers his proposal to raise student social fees pictured from left are joe brunetto 71 leith george 70 andy usera 71 david pacini 69 and steve kaufman 72 negotiations continue fund-raising begins by barry fenton 70 peter d klein assistant professor of philosophy has reported that 5,700 has been contributed so far towards the establishment of a black cultural center the fund has been set up to support the association of black col legians and the university in developing an afro-american cultural center in conjunction with the special students pro gram the executive committee of the board of trustees is scheduled to meet this sat urday to discuss the center in a statement issued mon day night president pro tern franklin w wallin voiced hope that the university and the abc would soon come to an agreement on a suitable facility to house the black ethnic cultural center complete confidence i have complete confi dence said wallin that whatever we do we will do to gether and without difficul ty wallin however could give no specifics as to when the negotations would con tinue the university judiciary board after a series of leng thy meetings sunday and monday had not yet made a decision regarding the cul pability of the individual members of the abc for their occupation of merrill house in defiance of a university re quest to leave issued by dean of students william f grif fith friday morning open meeting earlier in the day before 1200 students and faculty members at an open student senate meeting in the chapel naceo giles chairman of the abc said that the black stu dents had left merrill house with the understanding that negotiations would continue between the university and the abc and with the assur ance of wallin and griffith that the negotiations would continue in good faith giles reiterated however the determination of the abc to obtain a cultural center comparable to the size of merrill house earlier a proposal that the university would raise 10 000 in support of the afro american cultural center had received unanimous support from the student body the meeting which had been called sunday night to discuss the consequences of the university requesting out side aid in support of a court injunction was opened by senate president dennis rior dan 70 who praised the en tire university community occupation ends dean of students william griffith observes as tony bass''7o and william nes bitt 71 of the abc leave merrill house photo by gewirtz abc chairman naceo giles last designated party weekend begins friday by gregory j blasi 72 spring party weekend of ficially arrives at the univer sity friday with the usual fan-fare however this partic ular spring party will be no tably different from pre vious party weekends in sev eral respects this is the university's last official party weekend it was decided sometime ago not to designate any particular weekend as a party week end instead next year concerts will be scheduled throughout the year and so cial events will be planned around these concerts if de sired the student senate so cial committee which usually sponsors the concerts on party weekends will not be doing so this weekend in fact the organization mainly res ponsible for most of this weekend's activities will be the students for a democratic society sds events the s d s will be spon soring a number of events on fri afternoon they will stage the america game the continued on page 10 continued on page 11 continued on page 7 continued on page 8 :â– :-:<:â– :: â– -â– dsssk

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the colgate maroon founded 1868 volo colgate university hamilton n v may 1 1969 no 22 krehel colgate is a sick patient by robert b donin 71 declaring that colgate and other small liberal arts colleges are sick patients university treasurer ray mond krehel asked the fac ulty to reevaluate the cur rent budget and the 1969-70 budget in order to reduce ex pense by 185,000 krehel asked that a blue ribbion committee composed of the treasurer provost and two members of the faculty be formed to request suggestions for ways of cutting the bud get establish initial estimates of cuts and hold hearings to review the recommended cuts president pro tern franklin wallin explained that the uni versity had one foot on the dock and the other foot in the boat with regard to financial status he held that while university income remained steady and regular costs to the college for operation and growth were unsteady and growing rapidly overcommitted krehel stated that we are overcommitted and haven't been willing to admit it and called on the budget commit tee to be established to look at those services benefits and programs which are costing us more than we can afford let's admit right now we have a champagne taste and a beer pocketbook the treasurer cited as the reason for the needed econ omies the university's small endowment and the decrease of gifts following completion of the crisp campaign and the sit-in last april he said that while endowment income in dollars has increased its importance in terms of per centage support for the oper ating budget is decreasing with the increase in costs while the endowment fund would require an increase of 100 to yield 400,000 for the operating budget dart mouth yale or princeton could produce the extra in come by increasing endow ment less than 20 balanced expense krehel told the faculty that the key to a balanced budget was reduced expense not in creased income noting that income sources are limited and strained right now he stated that in order to build up flexibility for the future the university should consid er giving up some of its fix ed firm commitments he suggested that no new or expanded programs be ap proved unless other programs requiring the same amount of financial support are eliminat ed and recommended that because the cost to educate each special student per year is 7,000 while it costs 900 net to educate each regular student the special student program should not be en larged without outside sup port from foundations or the government coeducation is desirable krehel reported but we can not afford to build new facili ties and add the personnel re quired to take care of 600 more students at colgate within the limits of our pres ent facilities and with no more staff coeducation is possible but this will require a reduction in the male pop ulation among other possible meth ods for reducing expense krehel suggested that the faculty consider deferring the renovation of lathrop hall which will re quire about 850,000 of uni versity funds to construct and vice president raymond krehel right confers with assistant registrar frank weber at monday night's faculty meet ing student senate votes to increase social fees by lance morgan 72 100,000 budget the student senate by a vote of 23-7 monday night increased the student activi ties fee for the 1969-70 aca demic year to 50 the 10 increase which goes into effect immediately was ap proved primarily to compen sate for the larger monetary demands made by the various organizations upon the uni versity union board james r mcclintock di rector of student activities and chairman of the univer sity union board noted that the 50 fee was not unusual ly high and he named at least fifteen public and private col leges throughout the country which charged their students more than 50 100,000 the increase will provide the senate with up to ap proximately 100,000 to al locate to the various organiza tions which is a 20,000 in crease over the money given to the programs this year the major benefactors of the increase will be the social mixed reaction senate social chairman rich kessell 71 gets a mixed reaction as he offers his proposal to raise student social fees pictured from left are joe brunetto 71 leith george 70 andy usera 71 david pacini 69 and steve kaufman 72 negotiations continue fund-raising begins by barry fenton 70 peter d klein assistant professor of philosophy has reported that 5,700 has been contributed so far towards the establishment of a black cultural center the fund has been set up to support the association of black col legians and the university in developing an afro-american cultural center in conjunction with the special students pro gram the executive committee of the board of trustees is scheduled to meet this sat urday to discuss the center in a statement issued mon day night president pro tern franklin w wallin voiced hope that the university and the abc would soon come to an agreement on a suitable facility to house the black ethnic cultural center complete confidence i have complete confi dence said wallin that whatever we do we will do to gether and without difficul ty wallin however could give no specifics as to when the negotations would con tinue the university judiciary board after a series of leng thy meetings sunday and monday had not yet made a decision regarding the cul pability of the individual members of the abc for their occupation of merrill house in defiance of a university re quest to leave issued by dean of students william f grif fith friday morning open meeting earlier in the day before 1200 students and faculty members at an open student senate meeting in the chapel naceo giles chairman of the abc said that the black stu dents had left merrill house with the understanding that negotiations would continue between the university and the abc and with the assur ance of wallin and griffith that the negotiations would continue in good faith giles reiterated however the determination of the abc to obtain a cultural center comparable to the size of merrill house earlier a proposal that the university would raise 10 000 in support of the afro american cultural center had received unanimous support from the student body the meeting which had been called sunday night to discuss the consequences of the university requesting out side aid in support of a court injunction was opened by senate president dennis rior dan 70 who praised the en tire university community occupation ends dean of students william griffith observes as tony bass''7o and william nes bitt 71 of the abc leave merrill house photo by gewirtz abc chairman naceo giles last designated party weekend begins friday by gregory j blasi 72 spring party weekend of ficially arrives at the univer sity friday with the usual fan-fare however this partic ular spring party will be no tably different from pre vious party weekends in sev eral respects this is the university's last official party weekend it was decided sometime ago not to designate any particular weekend as a party week end instead next year concerts will be scheduled throughout the year and so cial events will be planned around these concerts if de sired the student senate so cial committee which usually sponsors the concerts on party weekends will not be doing so this weekend in fact the organization mainly res ponsible for most of this weekend's activities will be the students for a democratic society sds events the s d s will be spon soring a number of events on fri afternoon they will stage the america game the continued on page 10 continued on page 11 continued on page 7 continued on page 8 :â– :-: